Show ecoratect cv it On Fcnc I iifOUliiT IN TilE FOG I fl 1 J TO jA hSouth OVIM Mist Enables the Boers to Creep Up Close to British Position at Several fr Th Points r ROCKERY K I l ness clieapf I nn nl in SaltS W Salt-s reason i < Britsh Had One Officer and Twenty Men Kill led and Three Officers inc I BRED and FiftyNine Men WoundedSimultaneous Attacks Made atchdps inr JOO Center Ac by the Boers on the British Posts Between Points Sixty Miles I NE LOOMI dsvccki Apart 0 WEST TIiI CKLT PuI cal blotk london Jan 1 5 a mThe sltua uppj aon In South Africa grows worse rather hAKV than better LOla Kitcheners dEs Ltey organ Batches are more laconic than those bondhand oTgf Loid Roberts and little else of Im i Uprtance is allowed to come through Co 22 SWjjjpn Kitchener sends news of a serious Simultaneous attack on the night of 1001 FUtfamiary 7th by the republicans on the bIMln positions between points sixty woo t cry amiles apart along hc < lines of the Pre phralm UUpIIa Louicnco Marques railway APJSRS AXtv losses on both sides were lieavy clal strecLjKccording to reports the Boers were I oC after prolonged lighting iaL ImpmY F ° followlns Is the text of the dispatch on l8 aiclrom Gen Kitchener Looper f gd I SEVERAL HARD FIGHTS It MenP Pretoria Wednesday Jan 9On the 12iight of January 7th the Boers made ItlL 3 9Uultneou and determined attacks f2Jft oll ° ftSP all of our posts at Belfast Wonder lifcclul lJ tan Nooltccdacht and Wildfonleln op 0 of1u ntcnse fog prevailed and taking ad BguSlSVantago of the cover it j afforded thc r3to bell tJoera were able to creep up COHC to or Sflr Position A heavy lire continued alil at > l Jjntil 340 a m when thc Boers were Driven off One ofllocr was killed and iiiiee were wounded while twenty men nd SoulSJfero killed and llftynlnu wounded ho oss of thc Boors was heavy ventyfour dead being counted ER A convoy taking supplies to Gor sins brigade north of Krugersdorp NEtt COiyas attacked by Beyers commando Tel 035t > OHtprduy Tuesday The Boers were I nE rlvcn off leaving eleven dead on thc lOLS r j jiijlelil Our cRsualties were four slight liv CO L y wounded TIMES FINDS COMFORT KING rIe Times In au cclltorlal today JlntlH comfort In thc thought that the v c10 rocess1 of i attrition Is doing Its work LI i L4n4 muitl shortly lead to the incvlt tblr result tin other quarters however there Is ER CbS satisfaction that the condition of ifTalrs which has practically ncces ASiUttel the fortification of Capetown rirn steps havt been taken to comply itlt Lord Kitcheners demand for ei iftremtnts rElt liou DETESTS THE WAR l v Liid Coltridgo in a letter excusing nd SOUVC51 is noiitltenduncc a political meet ng bays I loate and deftest this var and thc polky which brought It EYS Jtbovit I lie mode In which It la con uctod and the undignified excitement rt3VVcr the defeat ° f sl handful peas Y L4tVb 1 pis defending their country at the andn of ton times their number of 1 wlneil soldiers backed by the wealth TnW England BOERS NEAR pREfORtA I ici 4V1hii mornings dltfpfucbcs report Lae hat a small party Of LJders carried off d tUe 01090 to the east fort at Pie 1 AfrroIl riii Nluo hUndred Boers under ufli pmmand oC Kvltzln or are fifteen 1j01pcr0 lies fcr4n Richmond in thc direction Salt J f Murraysburg Rumors are spread svoOD g at Portorvlllc that thc rebels have glnctl the Boers In thc Calvlna dls Tli jiillltary commissioner of pollen rcs U Johanncaburp haN warned thc pubic pub-ic to ben are of dangtMMUB dynamite mines laid in the Rand to protect the I mines |